In these good days of Panda-nization we have heard a lot about "quality". People seems to be taking the word "quality" as a synonym of Panda Update but the big question still unanswered was, WHAT THE (hell) is QUALITY?

Bill Slawski posted a very good post on "QUALITY" today at his wonderful blog and its worth to read to get the idea of what is a credible and quality website?

i happen to get a gps yesterday as a present, a Garmin 1350t, typing that into google was not a good idea, first three results were from the same website (shopping comparison site) first three result from same url always crap, next result was a site from Romania, no idea what that site is about, than i get a review site from germany,

ok so that much for quality signals, typing "review garmin t1350" i get first FOUR results from the same website, i gave up... holy moly, does google actually know what they are doing?

this was a phrase i never searched before so i was approaching it with curiousity and the innocence of a typical websurfer that wants info, shocking...

whatever Google tried to achieve with Panda it has failed for day to day things i surf for...

1. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides reliable location and time information in all ..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System

2. Garmin | What is GPS? "The global positioning system is a satellite-based navigation system consisting of a network of 24 orbiting satellites, eleven thousand nautical miles in ..." www.garmin.com/aboutGPS/

THAT PRODUCT DOES NOT EXIST- and this thread is the most authorative place talking about that nonsense string. Also, it is using the language of reviews, as we are actually reviewing something- pointless results for a non-existant search term.

Assessing the credibility of content and people on the web and social media: Modeling author identity, trust, and reputation

This is something I mentioned a few weeks ago on a different thread. I suspect that author names could be profiled to determine their credibility (i.e., are they posting articles on a commercial site then posting in hubs, or vice versa?)

Some of my writers have historically published content on other places, including some of the hubs like Buzzle or Ezinearticles. I think by having their name on my site could be lowering the credibility. I might be better off without even having the author's name. I have always selected writers who do good research, but you know how freelance writers work...they write for many people and write everywhere. It's perfectly reasonable, but unfortunately it could be guilt by association.

I have spend the last few days running test searches for products, for services, and for information.

I can confirm that I struggled to find the information. Without doubt, if you know what you're looking for, Google finds it, but if you don't know what the exact search phrase is, or the exact product code, you have to search again. Even searching for unusual products and services I ended up having to keep searching.

It's clear to me that with the Panda update, it's not working efficiently as a search tool.

Oh, and the UK serps are a mess of international stuff. It's pretty much useless for me.

I know, that sounds harsh, but it's the result of searching for genuine product and services.

One thing i've yet to analyse is whether the state of the organic serps is driving more adwords clicks.

Oh, and in fairness, I did the same searches on bing and I found the information with fewer searches. :0

One major issue- Viggen's profile says he's in Villach (Austria). So, 1) Google SERPs for that side of the world may be quite different from what people elsewhere are seeing. 2) Perhaps the product name in Europe is different from in the States (T1350 vs 1350T). Or, perhaps it's a fake GPS and the counterfeiter couldn't even bother to get the model name correct? :)

Actually, for fun, I checked out Garmin's site for Austria and the models DO have the T after the number [garmin.at], not before.

Some people write reviews about products thay've never even used, and then complain on forums because Google didn't put their review at the top of the SERPs..

That's to avoid a dupe penalty :). Say you have a soccer blog and in yesterday's match Ronaldo scored on the 44th minute. If you write that you are guilty of dupes since others will write that too, so you say Kaka scored and on the 43rd minute.

Same with reviews: if you say that a tablet has a 10 inch screen the Google gods will give you a duplicate penalty so you change it.

/half joking. JohnMu from Google actually chastised someone on Google forums for having a sports blog based on the games he saw on TV. Didn't seem unique to him.

Tester, I'm searching 15 minutes for it. I might have to resorts to Bing for it :). Apparently even Matt Cutts was #3 for his own story. [google.com...] [i.imgur.com...] ------ Found it, using the forum's internal search. Google.com failed me totally.

I think Squibble's point is worth looking at -- your site is titles "All about FC Barcelona" and you mention that your content is based on what you see in TV. While I can't judge the quality of your content, I would - personally - probably expect a bit more than just TV-based content. That said, perhaps that doesn't apply to the rest of your site, but anyway, I would definitely look into making sure that your content is of high-quality, unique and compelling.

Finally, this is just my personal opinion, looking through your site and the page that you mentioned above, I noticed that even with a large monitor, I am only seeing ads and banners when viewing your pages. Have you considered how users might react when they are confronted with "just ads" (with the content buried a click or two away)? That may not have a direct impact on your site's standing in search engines, but if users were to be confused by the ads, that will almost certainly have an indirect impact -- with new users not digging down to see your content, and accordingly not recommending it to their friends.

Thanks for that link. Interesting that the blogger who lost rankings wrote "News aggregator sites which picks my content gets listed with my content." JohnMu didn't respond to that part of it.

It's interesting that the site-wide factor for Panda can hit the content's original author as poor quality content, but that same content when aggregated on another site doesn't cause the aggregator a problem. Probably because the aggregator has such a variety of content on their site.